Everyday Idioms all in one sentence.
After I’d tried on roughly 10 clothes as of yet, Chloe, my friend, reminded me it’s time to go to the restaurant I wait on and suggested me to put today’s party off for the time being rather than calling it off for good.
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Everyday Idioms all in one sentence.
After I’d tried on roughly 10 different outfits clothes as of yet, my friend Chloe , my friend, reminded me it’s time to go to the restaurant I wait on and suggested that I me to put today’s party off for the time being rather than calling it off for good.----
You made many of the idioms work well in the sentence, but here are a few notes to make it more natural:
'As of yet' really sounds awkward here even if it is moved to a different part of the sentence. Clothes are usually an unnumbered item, unless you say '10 pieces of clothing' or '10 outfits'. Changing the phrasing to 'my friend Chloe' makes the sentence more clear. I do not know what you mean by 'restaurant I wait on', maybe you mean 'the restaurant we have a reservation with'?
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Hi Kamran, yes I'm familiar with the phrase "to wait on" but your usage was incorrect and confusing. You would normally say 'the server waits on tables at the Blue Restaurant' or, "I wait on customers at the restaurant". You have to wait on *something* (a table or a customer usually) but not the whole restaurant. Instead your sentence should read "it's time to go to the restaurant where I serve" or 'where I am a server'. Hope that helps
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Oh, yeah, actually it's written as "idioms and collocations" on the book I take them from ) Thank you.
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These are not idioms you are using. I think you mean "collocations" = two or three words that natives automatically string together. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/collocation
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David, "to wait on" is an idiom meaning "to serve in a store or restaurant"
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